Dr. Kevin M. Esterling, Ph.D. is Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, and Director of the Laboratory for Technology, Communication and Democracy (TeCD-Lab) at the University of California, Riverside. He conducts extensive research on online town halls and was recently the chair of the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation for the APSA Presidential Task Force on Congressional Reform. 

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Dr. Yue Dong, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Technical Director of the Laboratory for Technology, Communication and Democracy (TeCD-Lab) at the University of California, Riverside.  Her ongoing published research on LLMs ranges from hallucination reduction, to safety, fairness, and efficiency. She will lead the RAG implementation.

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Kelton Adey, the team’s full stack web developer, has implemented LLM APIs for backend website functions using scalable and agile dockerized containers, and has 6 years experience in web development project management.

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Ben Treves is an advanced PhD student in the UCR Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

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Euchan Jang is an advanced PhD student at the Ohio State University Department of Political Science. Euchan studies empirical deliberative democracy from a comparative perspective.

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Dr. Mariam Salloum, Ph.D., is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Associate Director of the Laboratory for Technology, Communication and Democracy (TeCD-Lab) at the University of California, Riverside. Her research is in data integration, big data visualization, machine learning, and database management.

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The Prytaneum project also has involved UCR computer science undergraduate students who have worked on the project for course credit.  These include Jia Xie, Xichao Wang, Stan Muzhuthettu, Johan Guzman Avalos and Joseph Park, and many others.